I’ve worked with SpaceX engineers, they’re very smart but I find it corrupt that a Tiger Team is owned by Musk rather than an independent and impartial expert.
On January 16, 2025, SpaceX's Starship rocket experienced a "rapid unscheduled disassembly" during its seventh test flight. The upper stage of the rocket exploded about six minutes after separating from the booster.
The company I work for does work for a government sub-contractor. If we send them a quote over a certain amount (10k, I believe), it has to go out for bid even if they want to give it to us.
And yet here is Musk, walking into agency after agency, saying there are problems that need to be fixed and unilaterally deciding it's his companies that are going to fix the problems. No bid, no contract, no fiscal outline of what it's going to cost.
It appears that Musk’s goal is to personally control the USA. To enrich his companies and himself . He may just be the world’s most enormous megalomaniac.
And after the USA…..the world!
Trump was just the useful idiot
How else was a person who isn't born in America supposed to get the POWER of the US President?
Install a puppet.
His kid, young 'Flack Jacket' Musk said it to Trump ... "you're not the President."
He's not wrong.
I am sure “work on air traffic control” is NOT what ANY engineer who signed up to transform space vehicles wants to work on. The enshittification of @spacex.extwitter.link is well underway. Engineers, pack your bags.
Prior to Jan 20 , 2025 it was always a non-partisan matter. You and your toy President created the myth that it was. So here we are with the firing of professionals who know how to do their job , unlike you. We didn’t need to start from square one to make the skies safer.
He wants to have Air Traffic Control handled by AI. The technology that often adds extra limbs or fingers to images of people. The self-driving technology that keeps killing people in crashes.
100 starlink satellites were deorbited due to a software glitch that would cause them to fail. 20 were lost when a falcon 9 stage didn't make it to the target orbit.
And we all want SpaceX engineers manning the towers, right? Oh wait, didn’t those same engineers just have three spaceships blow up? Or is it four? Who’s counting? I feel so much safer just thinking about it. Dumbass.
It’s been his plan all along. Corruption, monopoly, let’s also not forget that space X and Tesla have been atrocious and now we think he’s going to make air traffic control better? There’s an old saying, if it isn’t broke don’t fix it. 9 plane crashes since you guys took over.
100%. HES also going after banking industry, regulation and oversight because he wants to start his crypto bank and don’t want any regulation or oversight. He want to control everything. He’s the king not trump. Trump is his puppet.
CEO of Tesla (which has an absolutely atrocious safety record) promising make things safer. His first step - indiscriminately fire a bunch of air traffic controllers
The guy that killed high speed rail to divert money to his bullshit Hyperloop company? That guy? HE’S A PARASITE!!! He just wants to suck out the cash and bounce!
THIS IS DOGE. It's not about the budget, not about cutting costs, it's JUST about redirecting American taxpayers' money to private companies and making the billionaires richer. The deportations and all other nonsense are just fodder for the uneducated. Distract the stupid, so we can steal the money.
He also failed to mention these Space X engineers will be India visa workers. So he's not only profiting off of US taxpayers, but he's not even crating American jobs. America first indeed.
... so the engineers who are making rockets that keep on EXPLODING and failing safety benchmarks?
Those are the people who are going to ensure that planes don't explode or fail to meet safety benchmarks?
Seems legit.
IMO just because one is a space engineer doesn't mean they are trained in the air traffic control computer system. They need to beef up the trained air traffic controllers & not leave them short handed. Add indiscriminate program cuts & an inexperienced idiot as agency head doesn't help.
I don't think his main goal is to earn money with government contractors. I think it's control of the sky. His rockets would get first priority under his contractors.
Congress: Cut off Musk. Not one dime in Federal contracts to his companies. Cut him off IMMEDIATELY, just like he's cut off Federal programs with no warning.
He has had a higher proportion of his vehicles fall out of the sky or explode than any large commercial carrier. And that's not even counting his cars. Let's put him in charge!
WTF is this delusional narcissist saying?
His fucking rockets explode and rain shrapnel over innocent civilians. His cars have been rated the most dangerous in the world.
Yes - I've been thinking they want all the talent from all industries to come and work for them. People who can't find work will work for Amazon or Uber. Gonna be really easy to find some willing moles and saboteurs in these companies pretty soon 😉
And yet another example of how American taxpayers' money is being diverted into private pockets. THAT'S DOGE! These costs NEVER relieve the budget, but the money flows into the private economy and makes the billionaires richer. And the state has to pay ADDITIONAL unemployment benefits or support.
Kill a bunch of people. Claim the FAA is unsafe. Profit. I propose that once a year we should feed the richest man in the world to the second richest man. The hunt and the feeding should both be televised.
What if his tech has something to do with the planes crashing to help ease him into power? Who would know? The investigators are gone or belong to him.
Same as submerged cables being destroyed by the orcs shipping, who wins if all unprotected cables are destroyed, could it be spacelink by any chance 🧐😵💫
Stripping down public assets for privatization is the name of the game. NASA, NOAA, the park service, Medicare, Medicaid, the FAA, Education…this will all be more “efficient” when owned and self-regulated by the ultra rich. Ask Peter Thiel or any of those microdosing Ayn Rand-fanboy tech bros.
Thats exactly what he is doing. He has good engineers working for SpaceX, but they are way over worked. Need to call all of them out for working for a NAZI
I always wonder just how much more money does he or the other billionaire need? They all have so much money that they nor their descendants (multiple generations of them) could ever spend.
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I spent the day at a protest. I think I have reached my quota of the “What could possibly go wrong next?” Game cuz I always lose. It’s definitely 4:20.
Anyone else get the feeling #POTUSMusk has sabotaged flights just to get himself a new contract? That's what we need. More of his "unexpected sudden disassembly" products in the sky.
They want to privatize everything. Right out of Putin’s playbook. When the USSR fell. Attorneys and business men descended on Russia. They bought up the states assets and made them their own.
I recall watching the USSR collapse not long after the Berlin Wall fell. I never thought in a million years that I would watch the US fall 36 years later. This is a nightmare.
Right after Trump shoots someone on 5th Ave.
Actually, he’ll have the national guard or military shoot citizens first to put down protest.
Then Dictator Trump will declare martial law!
Yep! Air traffic controllers/flight travel,
the Post Office,
public parks/lands to drill/develop/sell to the rich,
public schools to dumb religious private schools for profit,
and on and on the criminals go.
For decades Republicans have wanted to go full on privatization and disinvestment of America. I always thought there would be enough sanity to keep us from speeding full throttle towards this end.
How about if Musk gets his Cybertrucks to stop catching in fire, his AI cars to stop ramming into stationary objects, and his rockets from blowing up in the sky …..
The same space x that has violated FAA rules repeatedly, and loses a rocket frequently due to errors? Yeah. No thanks. Airspace errors kill hundreds of people. And Space X is clearly not safe. Thats why they rarely transport humans. Just cargo.
He is without any redeeming value, just a cash sucking oligarch that won't be happy until he is the majority owner of our treasury. Kids and grandma are out of luck.
Outsource public service to his own private company to make it look like he’s cut the budget!! 🙈 but actually reward himself more from the state who already help fund space X
Elon doesn't have any legal government authority, let alone to fire anyone. Stand up to him, go to your jobs anyway, publish reports anyway, getting fired and censorship has to go through Congress and it can still be challenged after that!
You will make air travel safer, Musk? Who asked your opinion about ANY of this? We didn't ask you to take over our govt. We were much better off without you. Move along.
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(Nope, no conflict of interest)
https://www.thedrive.com/news/28420/parked-teslas-keep-catching-on-fire-randomly-and-theres-no-recall-in-sight
I feel safer already
Obviously something fishy going on here.
And after the USA…..the world!
Trump was just the useful idiot
Install a puppet.
His kid, young 'Flack Jacket' Musk said it to Trump ... "you're not the President."
He's not wrong.
Hmmmmm.
They can’t even launch rockets in Texas without damaging properties
#ArrestElon
By the time he is done with the country he will have amassed an obscene amount of deaths, fueled by his hubris and sheer incompetence.
I can't.
Those are the people who are going to ensure that planes don't explode or fail to meet safety benchmarks?
Seems legit.
His takeover has nothing to do with making air travel safer.
If anything it will become more expensive, less reliable and less safe.
Free enterprise only works with real competition and safeguards.
I don't think his main goal is to earn money with government contractors. I think it's control of the sky. His rockets would get first priority under his contractors.
https://www.vox.com/recode/23071531/flight-delay-rocket-launch-florida
His fucking rockets explode and rain shrapnel over innocent civilians. His cars have been rated the most dangerous in the world.
Are people in India ok being sellouts and letting an Oligarchy Billionaire run their country? Could be asked by Modi to make cuts in your country next! Say bye to your jobs!
https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/tesla-steps-up-india-hiring-after-musk-modi-meet-fast-tracking-market-entry-plan-2025-02-18/
😂❤️😂
It's also a dangerous cash grab already costing life and limb.
I spent the day at a protest. I think I have reached my quota of the “What could possibly go wrong next?” Game cuz I always lose. It’s definitely 4:20.
Spectacular.
So much winning.
Horrific. People are becoming seriously ill with rashes and breathing problems.
Actually, he’ll have the national guard or military shoot citizens first to put down protest.
Then Dictator Trump will declare martial law!
Space X has a horrible safety record! That is why Apartheid Clyde pressured the FAA lead out!.
the Post Office,
public parks/lands to drill/develop/sell to the rich,
public schools to dumb religious private schools for profit,
and on and on the criminals go.
And THEN he can talk about other safety issues
I'll go Greyhound